Elon Musk

Twitter may give $1,000 checkmark free to 10K most-followed firms
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The top 500 advertisers on the microblogging platform will also allegedly not have to pay $1000 a month for the privilege of retaining their verified status and checkmarks, reports The Verge. The decision comes as Twitter prepares to make significant changes to how verification functions on the platform.
Twitter bans record over 6.8 lakh accounts in India amid major overhaul
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The micro-blogging platform, going through a churning under Musk, also took down 1,548 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country. Twitter, in its monthly report in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021, said that it received just 73 complaints from users in India in the same time-frame through its grievance redressal mechanisms.
Twitter makes most of its recommendation algorithms open source
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According to Twitter CEO Elon Musk, many embarrassing issues will be discovered, but we "will fix them fast". Acid test is that independent third parties should be able to determine, with reasonable accuracy, what will probably be shown to users," Musk posted on Saturday. Musk said that most of the recommendation algorithms will.
Twitter 'Verification for Organisations' now available globally
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The platform tweeted from its 'Twitter Verified' account: "Starting today, Verified Organisations are available globally. We are now sending email invitations to approved organisations from the waitlist." According to the company, Verified Organisations is a new way for organisations and their affiliates to differentiate themselves on the micro-blogging platform.
Elon Musk, top researchers call for immediate pause on all giant AI experiments
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"We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium," they wrote.
User will still see tweets in 'For You tab' from people they follow: Musk
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Musk tweeted: "Forgot to mention that accounts you follow directly will also be in For You, since you have explicitly asked for them." Several users expressed their thoughts on Musk's post. While one user said, "There's already a tab for that, it's called Following. And as you would expect, it shows you tweets from the accounts you follow.
Half of Twitter Blue users have less than 1,000 followers: Report
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What's more, there are 2,270 paying Twitter Blue subscribers who have zero followers, according to Mashable. According to researcher Travis Brown, Twitter Blue currently has a total of 444,435 paying subscribers. About half of all paid Twitter subscribers (about 220,132 users) have less than 1,000 followers. About half of all paid twitter.
Only verified accounts to get For You recommendations: Elon Musk
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Musk tweeted: "Starting April 15, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations. This is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle. Voting in polls will require verification for same reason." "That said, it's ok to have verified bot accounts if they follow terms of service & don't impersonate a human."
Paid account social media will be only media that matters: Musk
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Given that modern AI can solve any 'prove you're not a robot' tests, it's now trivial to spin up 100k human-like bots for less than a penny per account. Paid verification increases bot cost by 10,000 per cent and makes it much easier to identify bots by phone and CC clustering," Musk tweeted. Obvious conclusion: paid account social media will.
Twitter admits parts of its source code leaked online on GitHub
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In a court filing, Twitter also asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to order GitHub to identify the person who shared the code and any other individuals who downloaded it, reports The New York Times. GitHub has taken down the code and it was unclear how long the leaked source code was posted online. The exposed source code adds to the challenges facing Musk's Twitter.
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